HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
September 25th, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
September 11th, 2022
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
July 17th, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
April 24th, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
April 10th, 2022
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
March 27th, 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
HoP 383 - Slowly But Surely - Huldrych Zwingli
November 7th, 2021
The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
June 20th, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
June 6th, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
March 28th, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
January 3rd, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
December 6th, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
April 7th, 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
June 4th, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
